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Watch: Axe-Wielding Man Attacks U.S. C-130 Cargo Plane At Irish Airport

Watch: Axe-Wielding Man Attacks U.S. C-130 Cargo Plane At Irish Airport

Published by Jenni Sidey

Footage posted on X appears to show a deranged man hammering away on top of a U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules parked at Shannon Airport on Ireland’s west coast on Friday. “A man breached security at Shannon Airport in Ireland, climbed onto a parked C-130 Hercules, and damaged it with a tool,” the Clash Report wrote on X. WATCH: A man breached security at Shannon Airport in Ireland, climbed onto a parked C-130 Hercules, and damaged it with a tool. He was arrested. pic.twitter.com/uls2tfgGND — Clash Report (@clashreport) April 11, 2026 Local media outlet Clare FM described the incident as a “security breach,” with airport operations briefly suspended while police arrested “the person, understood to be a male,” who was “seen in the vicinity of a United States Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft that had been parked on a remote taxiway at the airport.” US Air Force C-130H Hercules 91-1653 landed at Shannon yesterday from Rosecrans Air National Guard air base St Josephs Kansas, via St. John’s Canada. It spent the night at Shannon, …

Traveller family feud descends into axe-wielding chaos

Traveller family feud descends into axe-wielding chaos

Published by Sam Flores

A teenage boy threatened to “drive a family out of Cardiff” while wielding an axe after he “inherited a family feud” in the traveller community. The teenager was part of a group which attacked a caravan as the owner was watching television in bed, and cars were driven into vehicles before his mother was injured in the melee. Dominic Janes, 18, was among a group of people involved in a disturbance at Shirenewton caravan site in St Mellons, Cardiff, on November 24, 2024, which was described as a “revenge attack” on Michael O’Brien and his family. Mr O’Brien was in bed watching television when he heard a noise outside of windows smashing. A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday heard Janes and a group of others were outside. Don’t miss a court report by signing up to our crime newsletter here. He shouted at the victim: “I am going to show you what I am going to do with you now.” The defendant was waving an axe and shouted at Mr O’Brien that …